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The Health 202: The drug industry keeps ramping up its spending on lobbying

The Health 202: The drug industry keeps ramping up its spending on lobbying Paige Winfield Cunningham with Alexandra Ellerbeck The pharmaceutical industry keeps turning up the dial on lobbying, setting massive new spending records in its intensive effort to influence Congress and the Biden administration. Yet the administration isn’t capitulating to all of the industry’s demands. To be fair, the White House did back away from including an industry-hated drug pricing proposal in its latest spending plan. Yet this week, President Biden angered drugmakers when he said he supports the waiving of intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines. The industry increased its lobbying spending by 6.3 percent in the first quarter.

Beer, bouquets and free rounds at a gun range: How local governments promote vaccines

Beer, bouquets and free rounds at a gun range: How local governments promote vaccines Reis Thebault, Paulina Firozi © Justin Lane/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Volunteer Todd Hinden hands out cannabis incentives to anyone who can prove they ve received a coronavirus vaccine, part of an April 20 “Joints for Jabs” event to promote inoculation in New York City. (Justin Lane/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) Booze, bud, bouquets and a Nissan Altima. New York’s hottest club, this is not. Rather, it represents just part of the growing bounty available to those who sign up to get vaccinated against the coronavirus as the country looks anxiously toward a post-pandemic future.

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